Dating by profession

Despite being a convicted rapist and registered sex offender, Alcala was accepted as a contestant and was introduced as a` “successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the darkroom at the age of 13, fully developed.

When the authorities arrived at the scene and knocked on the door, Alcala had already escaped through the back door.

A disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others.

Despite this, he enrolled in UCLA’s School of Fine Arts and earned his bachelor degree in 1968, the same year he raped his first known victim Tali Shapiro.

Later that summer, two children at the same camp where Alcala worked noticed an FBI most-wanted poster at the post office and notified the camp directors.

The FBI made a quick arrest, but Shapiro’s family had already relocated across the border to Mexico to forget the horror they had to live through.